Due to the fact that a large part of the population is asymptomatic in COVID-19, the actual scale of the disease in individual countries is difficult to estimate. It is, according to different estimates, several dozen or even several hundred times higher than the number of infected people diagnosed with molecular tests. Therefore, the UK…
In accordance with the order of the President of the National Health Fund (NFZ), the valuation of molecular tests for coronavirus was reduced to PLN 280. The order came into force on the day of its announcement, i.e. 21 April. This is not the first change in test conditions and pricing The billing product “SARS-CoV-2…
Will there be a global pool of exclusive rights for tests, drugs and vaccines for coronavirus? As Dr Aleksandra Solyga-Zurek, European and Polish patent attorney from Patpol, says in an interview with PMR, the idea has already been supported by WHO. It is worth noting that without this solution, pharmaceutical companies have recently come under…
Generali introduced a new product to its offer as part of group insurance. Employers can insure employees against coronavirus infection. Generali provides hospital allowance and assistance Under the programme, employees can count on financial support in connection with staying in hospital as a result of illness. There are also benefits for the stay in the…
Polish tests for coronavirus may soon be available in health care facilities in Poland. The National Institute of Hygiene (PZH) has just validated the test developed at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Jaroslaw Gowin informed on Twitter. Medicofarma will produce a coronavirus test The coronavirus test was developed in the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry…
Until now, the treatment of patients with coronavirus in Poland has been carried out mainly in homogeneous infectious diseases hospitals. According to the latest recommendations of the Ministry of Health, all hospitals are to be ready to treat patients with COVID-19. The hospitals are to separate three zones According to Waldemar Kraska, Deputy Minister of…
The value of the laboratory diagnostics services market in Poland in 2019 amounted to nearly PLN 7bn or €1.6bn (public and private segment combined). This represented an increase of around 5% year-on-year, according to the latest PMR report. According to PMR, the year 2020 will be a difficult period for the laboratory diagnostics segment, as…
Polish laboratories currently have 150,000 tests for coronavirus and another 500,000 are being contracted, health minister Lukasz Szumowski informed the Sejm on Friday. Probably, 150,000 refers to all the tests that went to the labs so far. Some time earlier, the MoH informed that the facilities had first distributed 50,000 and then 100,000 tests. About…
Worldwide, the number of people infected with the coronavirus has exceeded 1 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Interestingly, nearly a quarter of these people come from the US. US: 240,000 coronavirus deaths? The United States has grown to be the world’s “leader” in terms of the number of people infected with COVID-19…
Four laboratories of Diagnostyka, a private medical company, are on the list of the Ministry of Health and are currently performing molecular tests for coronavirus, the company informed. The target is 2,000 tests per day Diagnostyka’s laboratories that perform coronavirus tests are located in Krakow (Zyczkowskiego Street), Wrocław (Opolska Street), Szczecin (Unii Lubelskiej Street). Also…
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